When it comes to experiencing an overall sense of peace, happiness, and abiding contentment, we are not created to be self-filling beings.

If the sky were empty, birds couldn't fly through it. The only way to know the fullness of the nothingness you fear is to launch yourself into it. Do this enough times, and soon you will start to feel -- and know -- the presence of a timeless stillness that binds all things together. And though it touches nothing, and nothing touches it, still it connects all that moves through it. In this...

There is a direct and proportionate relationship between the degree of inconsolable pain that we have and a deep-seated misunderstanding of our real purpose for being alive.

Who you really are can't lose anything because your True Nature is one with the whole timeless goodness of life.

We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.

When we recall the turning points in our lives, the times where we had no choice but to go through those wrenching self-changes that come with personal crisis, it shouldn't be hard to remember how sure we were that these same trials heralded our doom. But behind each of these seeming impossible moments stands an unseen (at the time) purpose: to bring us to a certain realization or experience o...

This is Memorial Day. This is a day in which many people go to the cemetery to visit the graves of loved ones who have died, many of whom lost their lives in armed combat. But in addition to visiting the graves of those who have died, there is something else that is very important to remember... All True scripture has an inner meaning that is verifiable and directly applicable right now in th...

Real forgiveness takes place when we understand that the only reason that our friends and family were the way they were is because of the unconscious pain they were in. When we finally understand our own pain, then there is compassion.

Student Talks: 10/29/2021 - Key Lesson: Just as a river is refreshed -- each moment -- by the small creeks and streams that pour their waters into it, so are we meant to be renewed by the passage of Real Life as it pours into us, revealing all that it does... within us. Of course, this ever-green relationship assumes one thing: that we remain open enough -- each moment...

Topics Covered: We're drawn to what we're drawn to for the purpose of discovery; Everything we will ever know or ever be is already in our soul; Your soul is seeded with the love of something for the purpose of self-knowledge; Love sees to it that love develops; We love the pleasure of tomorrow, but the pain we experience cannot be separated from that dream...

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...